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<h1 class="refname">password_get_info</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 5 >= 5.5.0)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">password_get_info</span> — <span class="dc-title">Returns information about the given hash</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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<span class="type">array</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>password_get_info</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$hash</code></span>
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When passed in a valid hash created by an algorithm supported by
<span class="function"><a href="function.password-hash.html" class="function">password_hash()</a></span>, this function will return an array of
information about that hash.
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<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
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<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">hash</code></em></span>
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A hash created by <span class="function"><a href="function.password-hash.html" class="function">password_hash()</a></span>.
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<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
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Returns an associative array with three elements:
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<span class="simpara">
<em>algo</em>, which will match a
<a href="password.constants.html" class="link">password algorithm constant</a>
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<em>algoName</em>, which has the human readable name of the
algorithm
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<em>options</em>, which includes the options
provided when calling <span class="function"><a href="function.password-hash.html" class="function">password_hash()</a></span>
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